Body Fragments
This category includes sherds or shards without rims, bases, or handles.
This category includes sherds or shards without rims or bases. These usually have some decorative element, i.e. paint, glaze, incised decoration, additions, or a combination of more than one. Most plain sherds/shards were not collected.
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| Object | U Number | Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) | Museum Number (BM Registration Number) | Museum Number (UPM B-number) | Description (Catalog Card) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 246 | (none) | (none) | B14939 | Limestone fragment. Inscribed with a dedication by Ur-Engur. [Annotated] Placed in IN/No. 1 |
| 249 | (none) | (none) | B14940, B14938 | Limestone fragment. Inscribed with a votive inscription probably a duplicate of that on the stone cone of Ur-Engur. Joined to U.270. [Annotated] Copied and transliterated. Placed in IN/No 1. |
| 256 | (none) | (none) | B14947, B14947 | Stone fragment of vase. Inscribed with a dedication by a priest of Nannar. Copied. Placed in IN/No. 1. |
| 259 | (none) | (none) | B14935, B14935 | Alabaster fragment of vase. Inscribed with a text mentioning the destruction of ninni-IB [Crossed out] Erin-Ki (i.e. Susa) and the dedication of the vase from the booty. Copied and transliterated. Placed in IN/No. 1. |
| 726 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Fragment of inscribed terracotta vessel. Trace of 9 lines, illegible. Placed in Packing Case D. |
| 749 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Small fragment of obsidian, with parts of signs from 2 lines. Illegible. |
| 1206 | (none) | (none) | B15612, B15612 | Pot sherd, upon the outside of which promiscuous cuneiform signs have been inscribed in an archaic hand, presumably as practice. P. | |
| 1582 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Fragment. From large jar(?) Red clay. With part of scorpion (claws broken off) in high relief under rim. [drawing: not to scale] |
| 1583 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Fragment. From jar or vase. Greenish drab clay. With part of scorpion(claws) in high relief under rim. [drawing: not to scale] |
| 1593 | (none) | (none) | B15658 | Fragment of jar? Decorated with nude female figure in relief, moulded and affixed to surface of jar: drab clay. The surface is also decorated with incised lines and circles. P. |
| 2572 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Ring. Pottery: roughly joined. Depth 2m-5m. [drawing 1:1] |
| 2605 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Pottery fragment. Buff clay, inscribed with couchant lion. [drawing 1:1] |
| 6208 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Black burnished bowl. Clay fragments. ? New typed. |
| 6515 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Red clay bowl. Fragment. Stamped decoration below rim, triangles with invested bases above and concentric circles below. |
| 12774N.1 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Objects. (A) Bead, long, clay imitation of bead cut from shell core. (B) Clay bugle bead. (C) Shell bugle bead. (D) Clay spindle whorl. (E) Copper needle (broken). (F) Clay nail. (G) Fragment of clay sickle. (H) Penannular ring of shell. [I not assigned in group] (J) [J.1-.11] Chips, flint and obsidian, including one flint piercer. (K) [K.1-.2] Fragments of clay animal figurines. (L) Animal tooth. (M) Miniature pot of reddish clay, broken. (N) Pottery fragments. [N.1-.4] 4 small bits black design on white, characteristic TO [Tel Obaid]; [N.5-.6] 2 pieces, black band on drab, coarse ware; [N.7-.10] 4 pieces red bands on drab [N.11] 1 piece plain red wash(?); [N.12-.13] 2 pieces, design in red on light ground; [N.14-.15] 2 pieces, design in red and black on light ground : rows of triangles and bands; [N.16-.18] 3 pieces with transverse bands of erased slip decoration, light red on deeper red body. (O) [O.1] Cylindrical vase of light drab clay and [O.2] fragment of a second similar. (P) Clay jar sealing (?) with scratched design. (Q) Clay jar sealing with impression of seal cylinder : subject, bulls and square shrines. (R) Clay cup, reddish ware, wheelmade, normal type, broken and mended. (S) Clay jar sealing, fragment, with design of rows of animals. | |
| 12778G.1 | 31-17-352G | (none) | (none) | Group of objects: from PG/NW level; found between levels -760 and -800 below the planoconvex brick pavement (A) Clay animal figurine. (B) [.1-.6] Fragment of long clay beads imitating shell. (C) [.1-.9] A number of clay jar-sealing with seal impressions, all of one type, palmette enclosed (imperfect) [reference to drawing]. (see over [Annotated] Legrain 480 (D) An oval clay object. [Annotated] Legrain 481. (see over) [Drawing of impression] (E) Tubular ball (?) bead. (F) Copper needle. (G) [.1-.13] Various examples of pottery. [H] (also animal bones). -- The design on D and C is the same [drawing of design]. | |
| 12780A | (none) | (none) | (none) | A collection representing different strata underlying the graves etcetera in the PG cemetery area. |
| 13051A | (none) | (none) | (none) | Group of objects. [A] (1) Painted potsherds. [B] (2) Animal bones . [C] (3) Fragment of limestone. [D] (4) Clay stopper for vase. Unbaked. |
| 13746 | 31-16-489 | (none) | (none) | Stone object. Obviously a fragment from a small shallow stone bowl (basic diorite?) rubbed down and pierced with holes. [drawing] |
| 13752 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Fragments of pottery. Black ware with diagonal and horizontal lines of burnishing. (Card Received from Mallowan, 1976.) |
| 14409 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Potsherd from the upper part (neck) of a large vessel of pinkish drab clay, on which is part of a drawing in red lines of 2 lions facing each other on either side of a tree. [drawing] |
| 14457 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Potsherds of plain red (plum colored) ware from the same pot, a large open bowl; but making only a small fragment of it. (card received from Mallowan 1976) |
| 14458 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Potsherds. Various examples of painted wares all found near level -800: in Field notes some recorded as high as -7.6m, the bulk as -8.2m. Not in catalog. |
| 14470 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Potsherds. Decorated, various. Not in catalog. |
| 14472 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Pot sherds. Belonging to a single pot, painted, of Jemdet Nasr 3-color type: may for about 1/3 of the pot. |